General subject boundaries are 19th and 20th-century Turkish literature, old Istanbul books which were written by voyagers, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and their foreign affairs, Turkish revolution and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.Ī selector may choose to put a book in special collections if it meets one or more of the following criteria: Turkish books published before 1929, pamphlets and fragile books of significant value, materials containing expensive loose plates, other materials requiring non-standard storage facilities such as photographs, maps etc., books from notable or small presses, significant illustrated books, fine bindings, limited editions (250 copies or less), significant first editions, autographed copies, signed presentation copies and all manuscripts. Collections have originally written with different languages Ottoman Turkish, Turkish, English, French, Latin, Arabic and Persian. Because of concentrated attention paid to collections by librarians and donors, they are able to support in-depth research, especially in the fields of Turkish History, Civilization, Religion and Literature. The rare book preserves, organizes, and services many of the most valuable, scarce, or most important materials in the Library’s collections. Thus, through the information contained in the database of Nusantara Islam manuscript, various topics of research can be developed further, while the potential for duplication and plagiarism cases in the study of manuscript can also be avoided. Therefore, Database of Nusantara Islam Manuscripts, as the center of information and research on manuscript that can be accessed online, is very important for the manuscripts-based researches and other researches. In addition, the database provides authors and copyists’ biographical information and their activities. As the center of Nusantara Islam manuscripts, the database not only records the title, author, copyist, language, and literacy texts, but also provides a number of manuscript collections and catalogues including lists, and various publications relating to manuscript which is used as the primary resource of research. The database covers a wide range of Nusantara Islam manuscripts-based research-using philological approach or other approaches conducting by foreign scholars or native scholars.
This program is open to any K-12 educator/staff member, as well as those at the community college or university level.Database of Nusantara Islam Manuscripts is a database that provides various informations related to Nusantara Islam manuscripts. Student of Art History at Duke University, who will locate Omar’s life journey spatially using his writings and historic documents as a guide student in Religious Studies at UNC, who will illuminate the portrayal and racialization of Said in period newspapers Carl Ernst, a preeminent scholar in Islamic Studies at UNC currently investigating and translating Said’s manuscripts, who will discuss the life and writings of Said +Naomi Feaste, an independent scholar in the Triangle, who will provide an overview of Muslims in Antebellum America Join Carolina K-12, the NC Museum of History, and UNC’s Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies to learn about the incredible life, work and resistance of Omar Ibn Said, as well as the often-overlooked role of Muslims in Antebellum America. Said died in 1864, just a year before the American Civil War ended. His writings attest to robust educational traditions and systems in West Africa, as well as to enslaved peoples’ resistance to the conditions of the American South. Said is most famous for being the only known enslaved person in the United States to write an autobiography in Arabic.
#Omar ibn said manuscripts series
Said went on to write a series of manuscripts in Arabic which draw broadly from a range of theological sources, defying the American misconception that African slaves were uneducated and uncultured. Jim Owen, brother to the governor of North Carolina, purchased Sayyid, and he spent the next fifty-three years of his life with the Owens. He escaped from his first enslaver and was later imprisoned in Fayetteville, North Carolina. In his thirties he was kidnapped, enslaved, and transported to Charleston, South Carolina. Omar ibn Said was born into a well-educated family around the year 1770 in Futa Toro, in contemporary Senegal.
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